Rapid API is committed to providing its users with the best possible experience, and the November 2023 release of the Enterprise Hub is a testament to this commitment. This release introduces new and improved features to enhance functionality, streamline user workflows, and provide deeper insights into API usage and performance. For more …
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Top Four Tyk Alternatives for API Management
Introduction to Tyk Tyk offers a complete API lifecycle management platform, including robust governance, auditing, advanced analytics, and traffic management features. Tyk also includes an API tech stack for supporting various chores within a production API deployment. Tyk is committed to open source, and some of its leading offerings, …
Top 8+ Best Mulesoft Alternatives
Data Integration The need for businesses to integrate data has gained momentum in the recent era of data lakes, artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, and online business. However, pulling data from various sources has become a cumbersome task for growing enterprises. Thankfully, there is no shortage of companies that seek to solve …
Top 8 Best Microsoft Azure API Management Alternatives
Introduction The expansion in cloud services available online makes choosing the right products an exhaustive task. Additionally, after choosing one provider, you're often coerced into baking that service into your application. This increases the switching costs associated with cloud services like functions, API management, or storage. As …
API Architecture: Components and Best Practices for Building Robust APIs
APIs represent a significant part of any web-enabled software. With the rise of the "as-a-service" model of software delivery, APIs also offer a consistent pattern for building modular and scalable systems. Therefore, we are witnessing a radical shift in the evolution of software architecture. Instead of embedding a bunch of APIs within, entire …
RapidAPI Enterprise Hub 2021.1 Release Now Available
We are excited to announce the release of the latest version of RapidAPI Enterprise Hub. In addition to introducing support for Kafka API types on RapidAPI Marketplace and Enterprise Hub, the latest release includes improved platform extensibility, greater governance, and additional customization options. Key features include: General …
Best Practices and Principles for API Design
Introduction APIs are created in ways that redefine and stretch products, services, and organizations. Many businesses have asked themselves questions, like: How can we get more modularity? How do we take advantage of new tools and technology? Are we able to scale our infrastructure? How do we know that we're doing it …
Managing and Governing APIs Across Multiple API Gateways
Multiple API Gateways Enterprise API environments have changed and a new set of requirements exists for enterprises seeking to build API platforms. To remain competitive in today’s environment of digital disruption, the next-generation of API platforms requires a horizontal abstraction layer that sits above the increasingly heterogeneous API …
Top 9 Best API Design Tools
Introduction “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” ― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence Of Isaac Newton There has been an explosion of available tooling that emerged from cloud computing's growth almost a decade ago. Developers pressing forward to do things better, make things cooler, or slick. The benefit for …
API Lifecycle Management
Introduction The more our lives become infused with technology, the more we seek ways to predict the future to solve problems before they manifest. We want to prepare ourselves for the obstacles ahead, so we are not thrown too far off course. The same is true when developing APIs. API publishers want to have a plan in place for their API. …
API Management vs. API Gateway
Introduction It's time to start taking your API seriously. You have plans to expand functionality, change the pricing plan, and implement a new marketing strategy. However, you start to feel lost the more research you do. Reading about new topics, tools, and strategies becomes overwhelming. What happened to your simple APIs? The popularity of …
What is API Governance?
Introduction It can be frustrating to understand API governance when you're new to API management. Many articles discuss the details of one aspect of API governance in-depth, leading the reader farther from the big picture. Thus, their understanding suffers, and they miss the purpose of governance. This article hopes to center your …
Top 4 Apigee Alternatives for API Management
Introduction to Apigee Apigee is a full-stack API management platform from Google. Apigee enables enterprises to build, deploy, and scale API programs with ease, along with robust features covering the entire API life cycle and API governance capabilities. Apigee includes an API management suite along with monitoring and testing modules. …
What is API Management?
API Management API Management is a set of processes, policies, principles, and practices that allow owners to gain control over their API. The integrated systems that make-up API management are born out of a large set of questions that project managers, developers, and team leads hope to answer. Is our API secure? How can we handle who …
API Management Tools for API Management Introduction Guide
Management of API entails how businesses monitor application programming interface (API) in development and usage. It ensures that the latest applications integrate with outdated systems to cope and perform without hitches under extensible workloads. In a nutshell, it is a set of protocols that allow a business to run and control API cloud and …